Victory For Pingree Supreme Court Declines To Take A Hand In Ousting Him From Mayoralty

Lansing, Mich., Feb. 3.- Attorney t . A. Baker of Detroit has filed in the supreme court an application for an order requiring the common council of Dei tioit to show cause why a mandamus should not issue to compel that body to order a special election for the purpose of electing a mayor of the city to succeed Mayor Pingree, who, it is alI leged, has vacated the office of mayor j by accepting the office of governor. The ! application is made upon the relation i of DeWitt H. Moreland of Detroit, who i recently petitioned the city council to cali such special election. The relator claims that to hold both offices is incompatible and contrary to the state ccnstitution and that by accepting the office of governor Pingree ipso facto vacated the office of mayor. The suprcme court Tuesday declinedto take up the petition for a mandamus to compel the ousting of Governor Pingree as mayor of Detroit excepting as an appeal from the county court. Michigan Fishermen in Council. Bay City, Mkh., Jan. 30. - Representative fishermen from all over the Ftate met here yesterday and formed the Fishermen's Protective association. It was voted to protect whitefish by closing the season from Nov. 15toDec.l5. The association will also ask that the size of herring to be caught be limited to one pound, and of whiteftsh to one and a half pounds. Hooth-Tucker the Guest of Pinfiree. Detroit, Feb. 1. - Commander BoothTucker. of the Salvation Army. and Consul Booth-Tucker, his wife, arrived here Saturday. They were guests at the home of Governor Pingree and held services in various leading churche3 yesterday. The commander is quite an ! enthusiastic believer in the Pingrïe potato patch plan for relieving the poor. Woman Poumled to Dcatli. Iron River, Mich., Feb. 3.- News received here from Amasa, a mining town fifteen miles northeast of this plrfce, says that a Frenchwoman named Demerris was kicked and pounded so badly Sunday that she has since died from I the effects of the injuries received. Officers went from Crystal Falls to arrest her assailants. ' High School liuililing liurncd. Kalamazoo, Mich., Feb. 2.- The high school burned Monday morning. The loss on the building is $40,000; insurance, $20,000. Fred Wildsmith and Fred Wftialow, firemen, feil from a ladder, the former sustaining a broken leg, and the latter a seriously injured back, resultlng inparalysis of the lower limbs. Will Sell the Mines. Houghton, Mich., Feb. 1. - N. F. Leopold of Chicago, who has been conducting negotiations for the sale of the Huron, Grand Portage and Isle Royal I mlning properties to eastern capitalists, arrived here from New York and stat; ed he would close the deal at once. The consideration is about $170,000. Allen WIU Play Wlth Delroit. Detroit, Feb. 3.- President Vanderbeck of the Detroit Western League ' Ball club, announces having signed Robert G. Allen, the well-known j stop, formerly with the Philadelphia team. He will succeed George T. Stallings, who has gone to the Philadelphia team. Slie Ioes Necd a Check. Grand Raplds, Mich., Feb. 3.- It has been learned here that a Chicago lumberman named Lyons, an uncle of the Princess de Chimay, will leave for Europe this week to look after -the '' property of the princess and perhaps check her career. l.i-uUl.ii "is at Houghton. Houghton, Mich., Feb. 3. - The Michigan legislatura upper península asylum and branch prison comrnittee members with their families arrived in a special car Monday night. They visted the big copper mines in the county Tuesday. Hermit Farmer Murdered. Ann Arbor, Mich., Feb. 2.- James Richards, an eccentric farmer, who lived a hermit's life near this city, was shot dead by robbers early Sunday morning. State Notes. Mrs. Sophia Nichols, one of the flrst white women to come into southwestern Michigan, is dead at Otseso, Mich., aged 99 years. W. M. Chandler, J. S. Lathers and F. X. Carmody were selected as Michigan university's debaters to meet Chicago's representatives in the Auditorium April 16. At Grand Rapids, Mich., a canvass of twenty-flve furniture factories shows that since the presidential eleetion there has been a revival of business in all lines of furniture making in that city, and that in fifteen there has been an increase of 1,215 men.